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A mitochondrial-like chaperonin 60 gene in <i>Giardia lamblia:</i> Evidence that diplomonads once harbored an endosymbiont related to the progenitor of mitochondria
6 Jan 1998
Abstract excerpt
Diplomonads, parabasalids, as represented by trichomonads, and microsporidia are three protist lineages lacking mitochondria that branch earlier than all other eukaryotes in small subunit rRNA and elongation factor phylogenies. The absence of mitochondria and plastids in these organisms suggested that they diverged before the origin of these organelles. However, recent discoveries of mitochondrial-like heat shock...
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